Press Release
Sleepycat hardens Subversion version control system with highly reliable database
Berkeley DB ensures Subversion data integrity and provides automatic recovery in the event of system failure
EMERYVILLE and BRISBANE, Calif., February 7, 2006 — Sleepycat Software, makers of the Berkeley DB family of open source developer databases, and CollabNet, the leading provider of on-demand distributed software development solutions and primary sponsor of the Subversion open source project, today announced that the two companies have collaborated, along with the Subversion open source community, to optimize the integration between Berkeley DB and Subversion, ensuring that data is stored reliably and with full, automatic recoverability after a system or application failure.
Subversion is the preeminent open source version control system for managing source code, documentation, and other files. The latest version of Berkeley DB v4.4 is being integrated into the upcoming Subversion 1.3.1 as a repository for files and their previous versions. Berkeley DB provides Subversion with a number of features, among them guaranteed data integrity, automatic recovery, and hot or cold backups.
"Subversion has been using Sleepycat Berkeley DB since its inception, both for Berkeley DB's reliability and its features," said Karl Fogel, a founding developer of Subversion. "Sleepycat has been an important contributor to Subversion by first enhancing Berkeley DB and then working with CollabNet and the broader Subversion open source community to update Subversion to take advantage of those added features. We have consistently received outstanding support from the Sleepycat engineers, and feel this close collaboration has helped make Subversion one of the most popular configuration management solutions today."
"Sleepycat is as committed to the open source community as to our commercial customers, both of whom use Berkeley DB in mission-critical applications," said Keith Bostic, co-founder and vice president of product development at Sleepycat Software. "Subversion is a critical tool for developers, and as developers ourselves, we can appreciate the importance of a bullet-proof repository for source code."
Berkeley DB is already used by hundreds of major open source projects, including all components of the LAMP stack, which consists of the Linux operating system, Apache web server, MySQL database, and the scripting languages, Perl, Python, and PHP. Other open source projects using Berkeley DB include BSD UNIX, OpenLDAP, Kerberos, JBossCache, Sendmail, OpenOffice, and many others.
Additional information on the use of Berkeley DB in open source projects is available at: http://www.sleepycat.com/customers/opensource.html. Information on the use of Berkeley DB in commercial projects is available at: http://www.sleepycat.com/customers/customerlist.html.
Availability
The optimized Subversion and Berkeley DB integration is available in the Subversion development tree and is undergoing testing now. It is expected to be generally available as part of the upcoming Subversion 1.3.1 release. More information is available at: http://subversion.tigris.org/
